The dominant thought that clothes is essential for reasons of

modesty is a cultural assumption. It is an

Premise that's not shared by all cultures, nor by all members of our very own culture.20
18. There's evidence that modesty isn't related to nakedness at all, but is quite a response to
seeming
different from the remaining social group--for instance, outside the recognized habits of
garments or adornment.21
By way of example, indigenous tribes nude except for ear and lip plugs feel immodest when
the plugs are
removed, not when their bodies are exposed.22 Additionally, a girl feels immodest if seen in
her slip, even though
it's far less revealing than her bikini.23 This also explains why clothed visitors to nudist parks
feel uncomfortable in
their state of apparel. Shrink Emery S. Bogardus writes: "Nakedness is never shameful when
it's unconscious,
Which is, when there's no consciousness of a difference between fact along with the rule
determined by the mores." In other words,
for first-time visitors into a nudist park, there is no hint of humiliation after an initial reticence,
because it's not
contrary to the moral norms.
19. Shame comes from being outside mores, not from special activities or conditions.
Because nudity is
unremarkable in a nudist setting, nudists might even forget they are bare--and frequently do.
20. Mental studies have proven that modesty need not be related to one's state of attire in
any way. For the
nudist, modesty is not spill with one's clothing; it only takes an alternate form.24
Psychological studies by Martin Weinberg concluded that the fundamental difference
between nudists and nonnudists
lies in their otherwise-assembled definitions of the situation. It isn't that nudists are immodest,
for, like
non-nudists, they've standards to regulate and control immorality, sexuality, and humiliation.
Nudists only
accept your body as natural, rather than as a wellspring of humiliation.25
21. Many indigenous tribes go entirely naked without shame, even today. That is Michelle.
She first appeared in Private Shots in February in a contribution called Hottie Michelle @ 18
& 42. We had a bet about how many remarks she'd receive. I won! This contri is the result.
She received over 100 comments, which made her so hot that this session ensued. Part two
will show one the many orgasms. She loves the remarks, and great comments will bring
more great images. Do not make me lose this round. You don't desire to view my picture
(laff). Due to Kate, Sailor and all our buddies at nudist. That is so much fun. ps Sorry for the
blurring but you must comprehend. We're not pros here!
It's only through extended
contact with the "modern" world they learn to be "small." 26

Paul Ableman writes: "The missionaries were typically disconcerted to realize that the
biblically recommended
Action of 'clothing the naked', far from producing an advancement in native morals, nearly
always resulted in a
deterioration. What the missionaries were accidentally doing was recreating the Garden of
Eden situation. Nude,
the primitive cultures had revealed no prurient matter with the body. . . . the ethical motive
was usually geared to the
naked state of the culture. The missionaries, using their cotton shorts and dresses, disturbed
this. Naked people
actually feel are, and may recreate their relationships with others as they ideally should be-open, equivalent, and trusting. . . . Sweating when they're first dressed. They acquire an
exaggerated consciousness of the body. It is as if Adam
and Eve's 'aprons' generated the 'knowledge of good and bad' rather than being its result."
27
Many Amazon rainforest individuals still live clothing-optional by choice, even given an
alternative.28 The
same holds true of the aborigines of central Australia.29
22. Even in North America, nudity was commonplace among many indigenous tribes before
the entrance of
Europeans.
Lewis and Clark reported nearly-naked natives across the northern Pacific coast, as an
example,30 as did
visitors to California.31 Father Louis Hennepin in 1698 reported of Milwaukee-area Illinois
Indians, "They go blunt
naked in Summer-time, wearing just a type of Shoes made of the Skins of [buffalo] Bulls." He
described several
other North American tribes as additionally generally residing without clothing.32 The natives
of Florida wore simply
breechclouts and sashes of Spanish moss, which they removed while hunting or
horticulture.33 Columbus wrote of
the Indians he encountered in the Caribbean in 1492, "They all go around as naked as their
mothers bore them; and
Additionally the women." 34 The Polynesian natives of Hawaii wore little clothing, and none
whatsoever at the shore or in the
water, before the coming of Christian missionaries with Captain Cook in 1776.35
23. For many native tribes, nudity or near-nudity is an essential portion of their culture.
Paul Ableman explains, "very few primitives are absolutely naked. They nearly always have
ornamentation or
LAUNCH of some type, which plays a central part in their culture. . . . Into this simple but
successful
culture comes the missionary, and obliterates the key signals beneath his affordable Western
clothes. Among many
primitives, tattooing, scarification and ornamentation conduct tremendously detailed advice

which may, actually, be the

Fundamental regulatory force in the society. The missionary so, at the same protection to the
natural expression of body liberty through informal, non-exploitative nudity on the seashore. ,
annihilates a culture. It was likely no
less traumatic for a primitive society to be unexpectedly clothed than it would be for ours to
be suddenly stripped
Nude." 36
24. Yet missionaries have consistently sought to impose their own notions of "decency" on
other cultures,
ignoring the complex cultural traditions regarding dress already in place.
Bernard Rudofsky writes: "People [in other cultures] who traditionally don't have a lot of use
for clothing are